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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions - Kinds of licence and their effect

15: On-licences: BYO restaurants

You could also call this:

“Rules for restaurants that let customers bring their own alcohol”

If you have a restaurant with a special licence, you can let people drink alcohol they bring with them when they come to dine. You can also let them take away any leftover alcohol if the container is sealed. You are allowed to sell food and hot drinks that have a small amount of alcohol in them, as long as it is not more than 14.33% alcohol by volume. You can also let people drink alcohol in your restaurant. This is because of the rules set out in section 37 for restaurants with this type of licence.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Kinds of licence and their effect

15On-licences: BYO restaurants

  1. On any premises an on-licence endorsed under section 37 is held for (the restaurant), the licensee—

  2. can—
    1. let any person who is in the restaurant to dine consume any alcohol brought there by that person or by any other person who is there to dine with him or her; and
      1. let the person who brought the alcohol there remove any of it from the restaurant if the container it is in is sealed or resealed; and
      2. can sell and supply, for consumption in the restaurant by any person who is there to dine, any food or hot drink containing not more than 14.33% alcohol by volume; and
        1. can let people consume alcohol.

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